5 claims in “society”
Society has lost collective faith in imagining a better future; fundamentally losing optimism is a core societal problem; bad news sells and alarm generates eyeballs, so forces of kindness, calm, perspective, and utopianism are in retreat.
The average American public does not understand tariffs and how they work, creating an information gap where voters who supported Trump see only the 'manufacturing jobs will return' message without understanding the economic costs being imposed on them.
The future will have lawyers, evil people, and good people trying to deter evil people—all using more powerful AI tools; the structure of human competition doesn't change, just the tools.
In the last 10 years people became intrigued by AI possibilities, in the last 24 months AI suddenly exploded, and in the last 6 months it became a hot topic in elections with even people on the street having heard of it.
What surprised Gopy most about AI is the speed with which it emerged from academic dormancy and became mainstream—something that has occurred in rural India where extended family members now ask him about AI despite having had no prior exposure to technology.